Like if you don't know how to put a picture or how to align it, is it okay to use another article as a model?
2006-06-09 17:25:24 · 6 answers · asked by nickyrao 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Absoultely not. As a matter of fact, using existing articles as a guideline encourages a common look throughout Wikipedia and strengthens its cohesiveness.
Wikipedia is also under the GNU Free Documentation License which allows you to copy, manipulate and distribute it to your heart's content.
2006-06-13 08:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by California Bear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
/No place/ is it plagiarism to use someone else's work as a model, especially if you just use the format.
Plagiarism means really ripping off someone's work as a writer. Not the idea, note, that's copyright or intellectual property of a different sort. Writers write ... specific words in a specific order, phrases, sentences, paragraphs. Rip that off (And yes, it means copy) and that's plagiarism. If you reword something? If you reword a whole work huh huh huh then you deserve a reward for having worked so hard!
Copy ... stand on the shoulders of the giants who've come before. (That's an allusion to something Isaac Newton said ... and I'm more than glad to attribute ... but it wouldn't be plagiarism if I didn't, just ummmmm kinda shabby.)
Really, steal and steal huh huh ... but just don't quote without attribution, without fair credit, is all.
And anyhow, since it's a wiki whatever you write will likely get jerked around anyhow! *grin*
(Good to know folk are still into that project!)
2006-06-10 00:31:51 · answer #2 · answered by hfx_ben 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not plagiarizing, but they do have a picture tutorial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial
Here's the link to their Manual of Style, which discusses the layout they encourage for all articles, plus links to other stuff like the picture tutorial just mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
2006-06-10 03:25:35 · answer #3 · answered by Flif 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as you aren't using another person's wording, how can it be plagiarising? It is ok to use templates to organize what you''re doing. Don't make your logo look like someone else's logo, either. Look at newspapers: they all use basically the same format, right? It's ok as long as you're not copying someone else's work and saying it's yours.
2006-06-10 00:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by fingerssfv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it would be a problem. As long as you aren't using their words you're fine.
2006-06-10 00:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by kiki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I so do not know what you are saying...try again.
2006-06-10 00:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by MillwoodsGal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋